Chapter 917
Body Refinement Improvement, Deer Demon's Trail
Chapter 917 Body Refinement Improvement, Deer Demon's Trail
A blessed land of flourishing and decay.
"laugh!"
Fine purple lightning crackled around, and the aroma of burnt meat mingled with the smell of burning flesh assaulted the nostrils.
"boom!"
Another bolt of lightning struck, causing the black jade lotus to open and close, its petals withering away. Blood flowed from the seven orifices of the red yin corpse on the remaining lotus platform, and the corpse convulsed.
"Master, you're in danger!"
"Keep the Crimson Yin still and do not activate its magical power!"
Looking at the unicorn-shaped Thunder Rhinoceros image that had been stabbed for some unknown reason, Fang Yi warned in a deep voice. Then, a flash of blue light appeared under his boots, and he landed beside the blood and flesh mud with the speed of a rabbit and the swiftness of a falcon.
The tattered fur floating in the air rippled, stimulated by the unfamiliar energy, and purple lightning roared, with streaks of lightning appearing and transforming into electric snakes.
"Boom!"
A bolt of lightning struck down like a divine spear.
"Ok?"
Fang Yi frowned slightly, and the Azure Blood Bodhi Branch slipped from his sleeve. A dragon shadow flashed by and lashed down.
"Snapped!"
The emerald green, resilient whip struck, shattering the divine spear and extinguishing the purple lightning.
"Boom!"
The lightning strike failed to achieve its goal, and the ancient, rough fur seemed to awaken like a ferocious beast, emanating a hint of explosive power.
The color of the black jade lotus, and the red fur standing on end all over his body, Chi Yin, if Fang Yi hadn't spoken beforehand, he would have already fled thousands of miles away.
will die!
With the eruption of this Thunder Rhinoceros Scroll, he is certain to die; this is a divine power that a Core Formation cultivator could not possibly unleash.
"Certainly!"
A slender index finger pierced through layers of purple energy and landed on the ancient scroll, causing the nascent unicorn thunder rhinoceros to dissipate and its explosive energy to be suppressed.
"The Thunder Rhinoceros Scroll bestowed by my Martial Uncle Red Eyebrows is indeed powerful, but activating it will be quite troublesome."
Fang Yi held the tattered ancient scroll in his palm. Even though it was suppressed, streaks of lightning still spilled out and struck his palm, sending a tingling sensation through him.
He clenched his fists, his crimson blood circulated, and the lightning was completely suppressed.
"Only after breaking through in the path of body refinement can one grasp the Thunder Rhinoceros Scroll and use it to temper the physical body and cleanse the corpse energy."
Recalling what Chi Meizi had said, Fang Yi frowned slightly, then relaxed.
"The flesh and blood of a fourth-tier unicorn thunder rhinoceros were refined into lamp oil to light the Green Bamboo Nourishing Lamp; its fur was used to seal the lightning and was then refined into a one-time-use magic weapon."
The former already had its master, while the latter protected me; it's fair enough."
"This is a perfect opportunity for Chi Yin to advance."
While the Crimson-Eyebrowed True Lord did not speak directly in the Bright Sun Pavilion during the day, Fang Yi understood the deeper meaning behind it.
"The favor left by Patriarch Guang Sheng has been completely wiped out in one fell swoop. The Nascent Soul True Monarch has exhausted his vital energy; this is truly a great opportunity."
"Without the influence of external things, one can contend with ancient shamans for the Dao."
Even if it's just a lingering spiritual shadow, even if it wasn't left behind by the Great Venerable Jumang.
Fellow Daoist Heng, can you defeat him in battle?
Fang Yi murmured softly, referring to the divine soul and the Dao stains left behind by the ascended great beings.
Even a trace of it is beyond the capacity of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator.
He calmed his mind and suppressed his distracting thoughts. Whether he succeeded or not, with the Nascent Soul True Monarch watching over him, no outsider could interfere.
"First, help the Red Yin break through."
The fourth-tier savage beast is comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch. The true lightning light it contains is vast and powerful enough to completely wash away the impurities remaining in the Crimson Yin Body from devouring the essence and blood of hundreds of cultivators.
A corpse puppet at the Great True Person realm is enough to give the Huitong Trade Fair a trump card.
Fang Yi channeled magical power into his palm, drawing out strands of purple lightning that landed on the black jade lotus.
Seeing the fear in Chi Yin's eyes, he spoke to reassure her:
"I will use lightning to cleanse the corpse energy, controlling its power. You can simply absorb and refine the heavenly might within the lightning."
"I will obey my master."
Chi Yin Linghui was no more than a ten-year-old child. After being comforted, he remained fearful and got up to sit cross-legged on the lotus platform.
"laugh!"
He tentatively intercepted a bolt of lightning and guided it into his meridians, where the corpse energy enveloped him and slowly refined it.
Purple lightning and thunder coursing through the meridians, containing a wisp of pure blood energy.
Whenever lightning bursts forth and threatens to damage the meridians, this wisp of blood energy transforms into a net to trap the lightning.
Chi Yin's tightly furrowed brows relaxed, and impurities in his grayish-red essence were continuously forced out.
Regardless of whether it is a corpse, a demon, a ghost, a monster, or any other evil, or a path such as Taoism, Confucianism, or Buddhism, the requirements for practitioners are all the same: "refinement" and "purity".
If one's magical power is not refined and one's foundation is not pure, even if one makes rapid progress in the short term, one will eventually be trapped in a bottleneck.
"Not bad!"
Sensing the increasingly pure corpse energy of Chi Yin, Fang Yi nodded slightly, a smile playing on his lips.
With a wave of his sleeve, strands of life force gathered and transformed into a blue lotus, which he then sat cross-legged on the lotus platform.
While mastering the Thunder Rhinoceros Ancient Scroll, he also refined the Crimson Yin Corpse Qi.
The roots of the blue lotus wriggled and burrowed to the bottom of the blood and flesh mud pool, extracting the purest blood essence accumulated over a hundred years.
"boom!"
A surge of qi and blood billowed into the sky, Fang Yi's brows and eyes were half-closed, and streaks of silver insect-like patterns spread across his body.
As Chi Yin's cultivation level gradually increased, his body refinement cultivation level did not lag behind in the slightest.
As night fell, a black curtain covered the sky, leaving only the howling of the cold wind.
The Sunrise Pavilion soars into the clouds, and cultivators frequently come and go.
Deep within the pavilion lies a tranquil retreat.
"Is Fang Yi in seclusion to train his body?"
Chi Meizi withdrew his gaze from the vast expanse of yellow sand at Changqing Palace and immediately turned it to Zhaixing Pavilion, ten miles away.
"How are your preparations going, my nephew Xishan?"
"This concerns the inheritance of the Tianji Peak lineage; we cannot be careless."
Seven large stars rose from the Zhaixing Pavilion, and You Xishan, dressed in hemp clothing, held a dove-shaped staff.
"Uncle Red Eyebrows, please rest assured. This concerns the inheritance of our ancestral master, so I will certainly select carefully, preferring quality over quantity."
"It's good that you know."
"Nephew You, please do your thing. I, the Core Formation Realm cultivators of the sect, will be watching to prevent them from interfering."
His gaze slowly returned, and Chi Mei held the Green Bamboo Heart-Nourishing Lamp in his hand, exhaling streams of purple energy to nourish the lamp's flame.
He murmured softly.
"Hengyi desires to devour the spirit of the witchcraft, complete the inheritance, and strengthen the foundation; Xishan uses the changes of the Northern and Southern Dippers to comprehend the secrets of fortune and misfortune; the Five Elements of Water and Fire generate each other."
Furthermore, Fang Yi cultivates both physical and spiritual power; his rapid advancement in physical cultivation likely involves bloodline inheritance.
"None of these younger generations are easy to deal with."
"That's fine too. How could an ordinary disciple, someone who just goes with the flow, possibly attain the Nascent Soul stage?"
The sect's accumulated resources of a thousand years were completely exhausted when it helped me break through the barrier; it was too difficult for the seventh generation of disciples to attain the Nascent Soul stage.
However, if another Nascent Soul cultivator were to emerge, Xuan Yang's situation would no longer be that of someone barely able to get a seat on the Great Yu chessboard.
Red Eyebrows swept across the Hundred-Mile Cold Wind Valley, watching cultivators come and go, hunting demonic beasts and gathering spiritual herbs.
The independent cultivators and treasure hunters attracted by the area have formed a trading market outside the valley.
"With the evolution of the primary and three secondary spiritual apertures, a great cold wave is approaching, and some rogue cultivators will be quite suitable as cannon fodder."
Six months later.
Dayun, deep in the mountains, ancient trees reach for the sky, and tenacious vines climb the steep mountain walls.
"Pfft!"
The Blood-Transforming Divine Blade slew a small green ape demon king, and crimson runes lit up on the blade as it sucked up all the essence blood.
Bloodtooth, resembling a child, wore a gray-black robe and played with a scarlet pearl in his hand, sensing the warning from the Blood Soul Dao Body.
"It's time to go"
After the death of Deer Demon, the Golden-Eyed Ape King of Rotten Peach Mountain became even more reckless, exploding like this merely after breaking through to the Great True Person realm.
He snorted coldly, clearly dissatisfied, having suffered a great loss at the hands of the Golden-Eyed Ape King.
Fortunately, the Golden-Armored Lion King, Huang Qiu, had further improved his cultivation, and with them keeping each other in check, the wild monkey dared not act recklessly.
A bloody shadow flashed by, and the blood-stained teeth vanished without a trace.
"Crack!"
A dead branch was crushed by a boot, and Gu Jiushang's curly golden hair resembled a lion's mane, majestic and noble.
'The large medicinal plant that the master nurtured has not disappointed.'
He stared at the remaining bloodstains and muttered to himself.
"Use the blood of a human and a demon to nourish the life essence."
Furthermore, through purification with his innate blood essence and Dao body, his cultivation progressed rapidly, making him quite formidable even among the sect leaders.
Fortunately
The gluttonous markings on Gu Jiu's injured body spread, indicating that his cultivation had reached the seventh level of the Core Formation stage. "Fortunately, my cultivation progress isn't slow either."
Thinking of the spiritual creatures bestowed upon him, he sighed softly.
"The Ten Thousand Mountains truly live up to their reputation as a sacred land for the demon race, containing countless spiritual plants and precious herbs. In the vast Great Cloud Cultivation World, only the ancient and renowned Jianyang Secret Realm worthy of being regarded with such respect."
"Now that Master Qin Yu has arrived, why don't you show yourself?"
With a grab of his five fingers, demonic energy coalesced into a gilded lion's claw that slammed down.
"boom!"
The earth shook violently, and a hundred-foot-deep crater was blasted into the dense forest. The demonic energy, filled with wild and untamed Daoist charm, rampaged wildly, showing no regard for anything else.
"Hurrah!"
The Azure Lotus Banner unfurled, moving without wind, its wisps of verdant green barely shielding Qin Yu and his junior brother Feng Yuanzheng behind him.
"I, the Demon King of the Wild Dragon, have come at your invitation. Do you intend to break our promise?"
Feng Yuanzheng was dressed in bronze armor, with a robust physique and an honest face.
Despite the immense pressure from the Great Demon King, he did not yield and gritted his teeth, gripping his natal magic weapon, the Thorn Vine Hammer.
"kindness?"
Gu Jiushang withdrew his energy immediately upon contact, and looked at Feng Yuanzheng with great interest.
Before Fang Yi formed his core in his early years, he was taken in as the fourth disciple of the "money-spending-a-horse bone" sect on Black Abyss Island. Surprisingly, his cultivation had reached the peak of Foundation Establishment, demonstrating a first-rate foundation.
"interesting."
Qin Yu looked at Gu Jiushang warily, stepped forward, and shielded Feng Yuanzheng behind him.
He was also surprised that Feng Yuanzheng, who had been left to his own devices, had a solid foundation; if he had a spiritual object that could help him form a core, he might not have been unable to condense a true core.
"Qin Yu has come to exchange for spiritual herbs and precious materials on the orders of his master. I wonder if senior has prepared everything?"
"I possess the spiritual treasures and materials of the Ten Thousand Mountains, but what about the spiritual herbs that Qingyangzi promised me?"
Gu Jiushang was aggressive and fierce, surrounding Qin Yu and constantly stimulating and tempering his soul.
Qin Yu patted his storage bag, and several spirit-sealing jade boxes were lifted by lotus light and floated in the air.
"This is the elixir that Master promised. In addition, Qin Yu has another request."
He pointed to Feng Yuanzheng behind him and then said, "My junior brother has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, but he is missing a wood-attribute Core Formation spiritual item."
The demon race is wealthy; I wonder if Senior Huangqiu would be so kind as to grant us this opportunity, considering our past friendship and the bond between our two clans.
"Oh?"
Gu Jiushang closed his eyes slightly, feeling strange, and looked at Qin Yu, who was defending Feng Yuanzheng and fighting for an opportunity.
This junior had no idea of his relationship with Fang Yi; they were master and servant.
On the surface, they are just two companies, but in private they have some business smuggling elixirs. They are much bolder and greedier than Lu Xiaozi.
"You junior, you dare to ask me for face? Summon Qingyangzi!"
"Master is extremely busy and probably won't have time to visit the Demon King," Qin Yu said, bowing slightly, neither humble nor arrogant.
He knew in his heart that Core Formation spiritual items were rare, and Huitong Mall could only exchange for five of them.
The chances of Da Yun finding a Core Formation artifact are virtually zero.
Yet, cultivators are required to protect Xuan Yang Mountain and the interests of Wuji Peak in Sudu Mountain.
Qin Yu's mind raced as he weighed the pros and cons.
"There are people running a transvestite business. Even if the monstrous creatures are dissatisfied, they can only teach me a lesson or two; they can't harm my life or foundation."
If we can obtain a Core Formation spiritual item for my junior brother, we can strengthen the foundation of the Five Extremes Peak lineage.
Just a little physical pain?
"Buzz!"
Gu Jiushang's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and a vast demonic aura pressed down like a mountain.
"You have quite the nerve, young man!"
Qin Yu's back sank, his body trembled, and he felt a stinging pain in his soul.
His body was gradually pressed into the ground until only his head remained, and his body below the neck was pressed into the ground, yet he still refused to let go.
"interesting."
Gu Jiushang suddenly smiled, and with a wave of his sleeve, a three-foot-long ancient vine and a dark-colored storage bag landed at Qin Yu's temple.
"Qingyangzi has indeed found a good disciple."
The Wood Dao Core Formation Spiritual Object, the Yuanxin Vine, will be included in the next batch of spiritual objects.
As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Jiushang took a step forward and disappeared into the lush ancient forest.
A few breaths later.
Covered in dust and dirt, Qin Yu struggled to crawl out from underground. Looking at the Yuanxin Vine, a look of joy appeared on his face. With a flick of his fingers, the Yuanxin Vine fell into his palm and was placed into the Sealing Jade Box.
"Junior Brother Feng, I am acting on Master's orders to exchange for spiritual items for you. Afterwards, you must not let Master down."
"Of the Five Extremes Peak lineage, you are the only disciple left in the Great Cloud Realm. You will need to devote considerable effort to gathering information about the Jianyang Secret Realm and trading spiritual herbs with the demon race."
"Thank you, Master, for granting me enlightenment!"
Feng Yuanzheng struggled to tear his gaze away from the jade box containing the Yuanxin Vine, bowed deeply towards the vast ice plains, and felt grateful.
He thought he had been forgotten on Black Abyss Island, but unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better and he still had a glimmer of hope for the Dao Foundation.
He said earnestly, "Thank you very much for your help, Senior Brother!"
Whether or not the breakthrough is successful, this disciple will never forget the great kindness of his master!
"Junior Brother Feng, please come with me to Dadu Ancient City. To break through to the Core Formation stage, you'll need a top-quality third-tier spiritual land." Qin Yu nodded slightly, sighing inwardly.
If Huo Zhao had been so steady and methodical, he wouldn't have ended up with his pills being of lower quality and almost completely abandoned.
Dozens of miles away, the stream meanders and flows, its tinkling sound never ceasing.
"Which fellow Daoist is blocking my way!"
Gu Jiushang's sideburns trembled, and a phantom of a golden-armored lion appeared behind him, surrounded by a fierce aura.
His eyes shone brightly, and his golden core spun rapidly as he warily watched a figure with two horns on its head and covered in moss a hundred feet away.
"The coffin of the Deer Demon's offspring?"
He suppressed his inner turmoil. According to Fang Yi's speculation, the coffin must have been possessed by the deer demon, and it was surrounded by decaying and withered Daoist auras.
How could it be so full of vitality, like the deer demon that never withered away from its former glory a hundred years ago?
Was the possession attempt a failure?
Or is it a deer-like creature disguised as a coffin?
Or perhaps the Deer Demon Child didn't actually possess a body, and had another plan.
Gu Jiushang's thoughts raced, listing one possibility after another.
Having cultivated the Withering and Flourishing Technique together, Lu Xiaozi considered Fang Yi a highly nourishing spiritual item, even surpassing ordinary quasi-fourth-tier spiritual items.
"Fellow Daoist Huangqiu, since you are trading with the human race, could you please take me along for the sake of my father's reputation?"
The coffin coughed lightly a few times, and a trickle of blood slid from the corner of its mouth. A precious tree with seven branches appeared in its hand, and with a flick of its wrist, streaks of azure light rose and fell.
"A near-fourth-tier spirit wood?"
"I never imagined that Fellow Daoist Coffin would have such an opportunity."
Gu Jiushang slightly closed his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them. Regardless of the origin of the coffin, it must be related to the deer demon.
Regardless of anything else, he was determined to stabilize the coffin, especially that one near-fourth-tier spirit tree.
He suppressed his fierce aura and spoke with a light laugh.
"That's certainly acceptable."
However, since this matter was initiated by Brother Golden Eyes, if Fellow Daoist Coffin Wood wishes to join, he must accompany me to visit Rotten Peach Mountain.”
"Golden Eyed Ape King?"
The coffin felt a chill in its heart and said in a low voice with sarcasm, "When Father was still alive, one had to be extremely careful when making deals with Jiuqu."
"Now, less than five years later, the Golden-Eyed Ape King has established connections with Xuan Yang Mountain. What impressive connections he has!"
He murmured to himself.
'So it was this old ape who colluded with the human race!'
Let me confirm this further. If it is indeed so, I will report it to the Ten Thousand Mountains and make that old Yuan pay for his blood debt.
Three months later.
A vast ice plain, a valley of frigid winds.
In the Hall of Longevity, the banners of decay and prosperity fluttered amidst the desolate ruins, while thunder serpents coiled within the verdant mist.
"tread!"
In this land of decay and prosperity, the mire of flesh and blood has been drained to its bottom, and the accumulated foundation of more than a hundred years has been completely depleted.
Looking at the sleeping child inside the Demon Jade Lotus, Fang Yi nodded slightly, his bones cracking and popping.
"Body Refinement cultivation at the third level of Core Formation."
Feel the blood and energy flowing through your muscles and bones, and the fierce energy hidden beneath your crystalline skin.
He murmured softly, took a step out of the Blessed Land of Withered Glory, and put away the Banner of Withered Glory of the Void Realm.
"Yu'er revisited Cold Wind Valley and found that the demon cultivators had prepared all the necessary medicines. It's time to head to Huitong Ancient City."
The blood essence accumulated in the blood and flesh mire for a hundred years has been completely absorbed. To rapidly improve one's body refinement, one cannot do without the Blood Sea Lotus from the Grand Trade Fair.”
(End of this chapter)